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John Palſgrave.
This Author was a Batchelor of Divinity, and Chaplain to King Henry the Eighth. He publiſhed one Play under the Title of
Acolaſtus, a Comedy, 4 to. 1540. dedicated to King Henry the Eighth; tranſlated from the Latin Play of the ſame Name, writ by Guil. Fullonius, and printed in Old Engliſh Character. ’Tis the Parable of the Prodigal Son.
Peaps.
A Scholar of Eaton Schol, who at ſeventen, writ a Play, called,
Love in its Extaſy, a Paſtoral, 4 to. 1649. but written many Years before ’twas printed.
George Peel.
THis Author was Maſter of Arts in Christ-Church-College, Oxon, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, writ two Plays.
David and Bethſhabe, their Love, with the Tragedy of Abſalom, 4 to. 1599. This Play, as the Title ſays, was divers times play’d on the Stage. Plot from Holy Scripture.
Edward the firſt, a Hiſtory 4 to. 1593. This King was ſirnamed Long-Shanks, and the Play gives an Account of his return from the Holy Land, with the Life of Kewellin, Rebel in Wales; it also relates the Story of Queen Eleanor’s sinking by Chairing-Croſs, and riſing again at Queen-Hithe, before called Potters-Hithe. See Grafton, Martin, Hollingſhead, Stow, and other Engliſh Chronicles.
The Tragedy of Alphonſus, Emperor of Germany, by miſtake, plac’d to him, in ſome Catalogues, is not his, but Chapman’s.
Mrs. Catharine Philips.
She was, if I miſtake not, born in Brecknock-ſhire, in Wales. Contemporary of Cowley, and much praiſed by him. I muſt confeſs, I cannot but prefer Mrs. Behn infinitely before her; ſhe
